Flitcraft: Quotations on gun control

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With all the discussions, pro and con, regarding the Second Amendment it might be enlightening to consider what some of our our founders who wrote the Constitution had to say:

Alexander Hamilton: "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed," adding later: "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government."

James Madison: "(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

Thomas Jefferson: "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."

George Mason, author of the Virginia Bill of Rights, which inspired our Constitution's Bill of Rights, said, "To disarm the people - that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."

Conversely, Adolph Hitler: "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing."